Alkyl chlorides pyrolysis

This study on the kinetic chlorine isotope effect in ethyl chloride50 was extended to secondary and tertiary alkyl halides pyrolyses51. The isotope effects on isopropyl chloride and terf-butyl chloride pyrolysis were found to be primary and exhibited a definite dependence on temperature. They increased with increasing methyl substitution on the central carbon atom. The pyrolysis results and model calculations implied that all alkyl chlorides involve the same type of activated complex. The C—Cl bond is not completely broken in the activated complex, yet the chlorine participation involves a combination of bending and stretching modes. 

Further studies on the pyrolysis of chlorinated and brominated hydrocarbons have been reported by Maccoll et al. for 3-bromopentane , menthyl and neo-menthyl chlorides , r-alkyl chlorides , dimethylallyl chlorides , a-chloro-o-xylene , and substituted 1-phenylethyl chlorides . Other workers have reported on the thermal reactions of ethyl chloride , monochloropentanes , 1-... 

Alkyl-1,3-butadienes. This reagent undergoes alkylation at the a-position. By reaction with trimethylsilyl chloride, a valuable four-carbon building block is obtained. The latter compound on further alkylation and pyrolysis gives 2-alkyl-1,3-butadienes. 

B. By Hydrolysis Reactions.—Details have appeared of the synthesis of dibenzophosphorin oxides (15) from 5-alkyldibenzophospholes, by reaction with methyl propiolate in the presence of water, and of confirmatory syntheses from phosphinic acid chlorides, as shown below. Evidence for the suggested mechanism of the ring-expansion reaction is presented. The hydrolysis of enamine phosphine oxides is an efficient, although somewhat indirect, method for the preparation of j8-ketoalkylphosphine oxides (16) [see Section 3(iii), for the preparation of enamine oxides]. Reasonable yields (48—66%) of trialkylphosphine oxides (17) have been obtained by the alkaline hydrolysis of the products from the pyrolysis at 220 °C of red phosphorus with alkyl halides, in the presence of iodine. 

The best yields are obtained when the ketene has an electronegative substituent, such as halogen. Simple ketenes are not very stable and must usually be generated in situ. The most common method for generating ketenes for synthesis is by dehydrohalo-genation of acyl chlorides. This is usually done with an amine such as triethylamine.167 Other activated carboxylic acid derivatives, such as acyloxypyridinium ions, have also been used as ketene precursors.168 Ketene itself and certain alkyl derivatives can be generated by pyrolysis of carboxylic anhydrides.169... 

Vinyl chlorides The anion can be alkylated by alkyl iodides (HMPT) or benzylic bromides in high yield. On pyrolysis at 160°, the products are converted into vinyl chlorides (cis- and trans-isomers). 

The liquid ammonia was then driven off, an equivalent of the ketone was added, and the mixture refluxed for completion of the aldolization. Lithium amide proved to be superior to sodium amide for these condensations. /-Butyl esters were preferred because they are readily cleaved by pyrolysis or by acid. Dehydration to the a,fi-unsaturated esters could be effected with thionyl chloride and pyridine. Hauser and Lindsay succeeded in effecting aldol condensation with ethyl acetate, which undergoes self-condensation very readily two equivalents of base were used. Sisido has reported further alkylations of /-butyl esters. 

Alkyl-substituted methyl 2-(trimethylsiloxy)cyclopropanecarboxylates 24 undergo the same type of reaction when reacted with aldehydes or ketones in the presence of titanium(IV) chloride.The homoaldol adducts 25 were formed with high stereoselectivity and could subsequently be transformed to the highly substituted dihydrofuran derivatives 27 by treatment with boron trifluoride and/or by pyrolysis. 

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